Cross-border hands of friendship and getting to grips with Irish linguistic idiosyncracies

Cross-border hands of friendship and getting to grips with Irish linguistic idiosyncracies

Radio essays, poems and complementary music, broadcast from Ireland on RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday mornings since 1968.

Radio essays, poems and complementary music, broadcast from Ireland on RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday mornings since 1968.

Sunday Miscellany

Showers, Sobriety and Synonyms, by Bernadett Buda

"They flock like brittle songbirds, chorusing after her to this impressively-sized Asda..."

"They flock like brittle songbirds, chorusing after her to this impressively-sized Asda..."

"Mr Heaney was at his desk, solid as the Sugarloaf, still cheerful after a day of lectures..."

"Mr Heaney was at his desk, solid as the Sugarloaf, still cheerful after a day of lectures..."

The kindly uncle who was instrumental in the restoration of  800-year old Ballintubber Abbey

The kindly uncle who was instrumental in the restoration of&nbsp; 800-year old Ballintubber Abbey